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Seals Playing Video Games For Science? We've Got The Footage To Prove ItSeals Playing Video Games For Science? We've Got The Footage To Prove ItSeals are pretty incredible mammals. Not only do they possess the lung capacity to make epic dives and are caring mothers, but they also survive in some pretty testing conditions. Down deep in the ocean, there is very little light, and the water can be very cloudy, so how are these pinnipeds navigating? One research group...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 168 Visualizações
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What Is Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” Actually About?What Is Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” Actually About?President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that has the stated goal of restoring trust in science – but critics are claiming the order will allow the administration to dictate what science can be done and shared, limiting freedom of research across the United States.In section 7 of the executive order, the administration...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 93 Visualizações
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"Cosmic Miracle" Is Now The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen"Cosmic Miracle" Is Now The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen"Cosmic Miracle" Is Now The Most Distant Galaxy Ever SeenJWST has broken its own record and seen even farther away into the past of the cosmos. 1CommentPortion of the COSMOS-Web, the area of the sky where this new distant galaxy is located. Image credit: COSMOS-Web / Kartaltepe / Casey / Franco / Larson / RIT / UT Austin / CANDIDEThe...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 246 Visualizações
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"Egyptian Blue" Was A Color Lost To History. Finally, We Can Make It Again"Egyptian Blue" Was A Color Lost To History. Finally, We Can Make It AgainSometimes, when you see dusty artifacts in a museum or crumbling ruins in the streets, it’s easy to forget that these things were once new. Ancient Greek statues were complete and gaudily-painted; Pompeii was a bustling (and other activities) metropolis. In Egypt, the Pyramid at Giza shone and sparkled in the Sun – and...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 108 Visualizações
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"Interstellar Concert": ESA Beams "True Unofficial Space Anthem" To NASA's Voyager 1"Interstellar Concert": ESA Beams "True Unofficial Space Anthem" To NASA's Voyager 1A performance of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube was beamed into space for an unusual audience over the weekend. The waltz, composed in 1866, was recorded by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra before being sent over 24.9 billion kilometers (15.5 billion miles) to NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.If...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 242 Visualizações
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"Necrobotics" Turns Dead Spider Corpses Into Biohybrid RobotsScientists Turn Dead Spider Corpses Into Biohybrid NecrobotsDead spiders tend to curl up in a rather creepy clawed position, but beyond looking a little ominous, it seems their lifeless bodies may have useful applications in robotics. Scientists from Rice University have harnessed the unusual locomotion mechanism of wolf spiders to create a type of robotics they’ve coined “necrobotics”. That’s...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 314 Visualizações
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"Unlike Anything We Have Seen Before": Repeating Signal From Deep In Galactic Plane Puzzles Astronomers"Unlike Anything We Have Seen Before": Repeating Signal From Deep In Galactic Plane Puzzles AstronomersAstronomers are puzzled after detecting an unusual, repeating long-period transient (LPT) signal emitted deep in the Galactic Plane.Last year, a team from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, found the strange signal using the ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia. The...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 224 Visualizações
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"World's Smallest" Nano-Violin Measures Less Than A Hair's Width – But Could Lead To Big Discoveries"World's Smallest" Nano-Violin Measures Less Than A Hair's Width – But Could Lead To Big DiscoveriesPhysicists have created a "nano-violin" so small that it could fit within the width of a human hair. This is not only good news for anyone feeling sorry for themselves – it also demonstrates the capabilities of a new nanolithography system that allows researchers to build and study nanoscale...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 41 Visualizações
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2-Million-Year-Old Teeth Reveal Sex Of Prehistoric Human-Like Ape For The First Time2-Million-Year-Old Teeth Reveal Sex Of Prehistoric Human-Like Ape For The First TimeFor the first time ever, scientists have managed to determine the biological sex of an ancient human ancestor that lived in Africa around two million years ago. By analyzing proteins in the prehistoric creature’s teeth, the study authors were also able to shed new light on genetic diversity within the...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 156 Visualizações
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2-Year-Old Who "Loves A Challenge" Becomes Youngest Ever Member Of Mensa2-Year-Old Who "Loves A Challenge" Becomes Youngest Ever Member Of MensaA British toddler has become the youngest ever member of the exclusive high-IQ (intelligence quotient) society, Mensa.The child, Joseph Harris-Birtill, who was born November 23, 2021, became a member of the non-profit organization when he was 2 years and 182 days old, according to Guinness World Records.In order to be...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 243 Visualizações
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200-Year-Old Condom Made Of Sheep Appendix Contains A *Very* NSFW Drawing200-Year-Old Condom Made Of Sheep Appendix Contains A *Very* NSFW Drawing200-Year-Old Condom Made Of Sheep Appendix Contains A *Very* NSFW DrawingThe illustration is, uh, quite generous.Blurring this image was easier said than done.Image credit: RijksmuseumEver wondered what a nearly 200-year-old condom might look like? Probably not, but thanks to a rare specimen now on display at a museum in...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 54 Visualizações
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4,000-Year-Old Syrian Baby Rattles Look Surprisingly Familiar4,000-Year-Old Syrian Baby Rattles Look Surprisingly FamiliarFragments of ancient household item unidentified for 90 years after being excavated have been found to be pieces of baby rattles from 4,000-4,500 years ago. The discovery offers archaeologists a chance to learn how these implements have changed, and how they have not, in all that timeDr Mette Hald of the National Museum of Denmark is...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 245 Visualizações
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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil RecordEarth Once Had Wombats The Size Of Hippos, And Fossilized Collagen Could Be The Key To Finding ThemFrom around 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, Earth was home to terrestrial giants: mammoths, moa, and mega-marsupials, including something that "would have looked like a wombat the size of a hippo". We really had it all, until we didn’t. The disappearance of Earth’s megafauna remains something of...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 152 Visualizações
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6,000 Years Ago, A Mysterious Human Population Entered South America – Then Vanished Without A Trace6,000 Years Ago, A Mysterious Human Population Entered South America – Then Vanished Without A Trace6,000 Years Ago, A Mysterious Human Population Entered South America – Then Vanished Without A TraceThey disappeared some time before 2,000 years ago.Unlike the later Muisca culture, this early population left no genetic imprint on modern South Americans.Image credit:...0 Comentários 0 Compartilhamentos 216 Visualizações
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